{in running across this shot yesterday i forgot how much i liked it}
I spent most of yesterday fooling around with pictures. I looked through the flickr archives of images that I've taken – cropping, critiquing and just generally stressing about them. I made three trips across town to Walgreens, ordering 8x10 prints (because they are only 99 cents each this week!) and then found flaws in all of them.
Why all the drama? I'm going to enter some shots in the fair for the first time this year and I don't want to feel like an idiot. It's not that I'm obsessed with winning, although I wouldn't argue with the judges if I did. It's that it feels so vulnerable to put what you hope is your "best" out there and be found wanting.
It's that way every time you choose to reveal something of who you are. I'm just not sure it ever gets any easier.
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I've been using Walgreens 99 cent deal but this past week I've been disappointed as well. Several of my shots came back too dark. I also have trouble with cropping at times. I've found it helps to crop to an 8X10 format (I use Picasa) before going to Walgreens. Also, you can do some minor editing at the Walgreens kiosk, plus they are pretty good about rerunning something for you . . . but that depends a bit on which clerk is manning the photo department at the time.
I'm gonna do cartwheels when I see them pin that first ribbon on one of your photos.
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